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8:35 AM PDT on September 20, 2022

    • Newsom signed a climate package, but what about that parking bill? (Fresno Bee)
    • Why electric vehicles won't break the grid (Scientific American)
    • Federal funding will help CA add electric charging along highways (CA Energy Commission)
    • The Hummer EV is an environmental disaster (Fast Company)
    • E-bikes are fun, useful, planet-friendly transport (Earth 911)
    • SF Chronicle reporters plan to ride all 27 Bay Area transit agencies in a day, if they can (link without paywall) (Mass Transit)
    • Nonprofit plans a shuttle into Angeles Forest trailheads (Mass Transit)
    • Meeting soon on North San Fernando Valley transit corridor project (The Source)
    • Pasadena City Council finalizes transportation wish list for Metro (Pasadena Now)
    • Pasadena transportation commission to consider pedestrian plan this week (Pasadena Now)
    • One quarter of US adults suffer from transportation insecurity (Washington Center for Equitable Growth)
    • Transit agencies having trouble hiring enough drivers (SmartCitiesDive)
    • Washington DC plans to ban right turns on red, implement Idaho Stop (Washingtonian)
    • U.S. climate advisor: a paradigm shift is taking place (NY Times)
    • Composting your dead self (now legal in CA) is way better for the planet than cremation (The Guardian, LA Times)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Melanie Curry

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, since her early days commuting by bike to UCLA long ago. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, and edited Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center. She also earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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